News -> Pooyie!

Pooyie! 03.31.2010

Written by The Independent Staff
Wednesday, 31 March 2010

C’EST BON
Lafayette is in danger of turning into Grosse Tete. With all the ego stroking we’ve been getting thanks to our much-talked-about and envied fiber to the premise project, our collective head is due for some swelling. Three weeks ago City-Parish President Joey Durel was in Washington, D.C., at the invitation of the Federal Communications Commission and the Knight Foundation for a broadband congress. That was flattering. But last week the company got more exclusive and the accolades more effusive when representative of Lafayette Consolidated Government and Lafayette Utilities System joined a select group at Google’s D.C. bunker for a second summit sponsored by The Paley Center for Media and The Ford Foundation. Only Lafayette and San Francisco were invited. “We were the envy of the crowd,” Durel gushed after the event. In a few weeks some of the leading lights in the tech firmament will be in Lafayette for FiberFête, yet another sign that the Hub City is ready to vie for the title, “most wired city in America.”

PAS BON
Is Lafayette’s arena football team owned by Dan Snyder? If you’re a pro football fan, you know where we’re headed: Snyder, the Washington Redskins owner, goes through head coaches faster than he goes through underwear. It was an eyebrow raiser last week when Wildcatters management announced the ouster of second-year head coach John Fourcade, a former Ole Miss and New Orleans Saints quarterback. (The team was called the Mudbugs for its inaugural season last year.) Coaches come and go, that’s part of the deal, but Fourcade’s firing came after the first game of the season, a loss to the Greenville Force. Talk about trigger happy. There must be something we’re missing because Fourcade’s replacement was announced the same day as his firing. The Wildcatters don’t open up their home season until May 1 in the Cajundome — they played last season in shabby Blackham Coliseum — so there’s time to right the ship. But, like the IceGators who also endured unseemly, public coaching and management changes during their recently concluded season, Fourcade’s canning doesn’t bode well.

COUILLON
Terry Lisotta is an anachronism — he belongs to a bygone Louisiana when graft and corruption and milking the public teat were de rigueur for elected and appointed officials alike. So while Louisiana tries to shake that image, the former CEO of Citizens Insurance, the insurer of last resort in hurricane-plagued Louisiana, was shaking his booty in Bermuda and otherwise bilking the state-created, non-profit corporation out of about $30,000 by using the company credit card for his personal dalliances. Among the allegations against Lisotta, who pleaded guilty last week and will be sentenced to five years in prison: a clandestine Sandestin weekend, quail hunts in Cajun Country, flights of fancy to Europe, New York and the Caribbean for him, his wife and his girlfriend (separately, of course, the man has some scruples), and blowing a grand at Sam’s to supply his daughter’s prom party. Lisotta was apologetic during his plea hearing. Our guess is, he’s sorry he got caught.

Articles by this Author:

View all articles by this author

Comments (3)

Subscribe to this comment's feed

...
written by EXISTENTIALIST MAN , March 31, 2010 - 06:28 pm

THIS IS IN KEEPING WITH LOUISIANA POLITICS,,,,,,,,,,,THERE IS SUCH A TOLERANT ATTITUDE BY THE LOUISIANA'S VOTERS, AND THIS IS DUE TO THERE BEING SO MANY UNDERHAND, UNDER THE TABLE DEALING AND EVERY POLITICIAN IN OUR STATE HAS ONE HAND OUT GRABBING KICKBACKS AND THE OTHER HAND HOLDING A GLASS TOASTING THE CRONYS DELIVERING THE FUR COAT AND SEASON SAINTS TICKETS FOR THE FAMILY, THIS IS HOW THEIR CHILDREN LEARN, AND THIS IS THE REASON NO-ONE CAN STOP THIS HABITUAL THIEVERY, ITS INGRAINED IN THE PEEPS, FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. STEALING, STROKING THE CRONYS ON THE BACK, AND THE ABSENT OF A MEMORY BANK IN THE LOUISIANA'S TETE,
INSURES CORRUPTION AND WITH THE DAMN FOX GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE, IT WILL ALWAYS BE A NATURAL COURSE FOR POLITICIANS, EVERYONE FROM THE DOGCATCHER TO THE PRESIDENT, IS IN ON THE TAKEE, TAKEE, OUTEE,
REMINDS ME OF ONR COMMENTATOR POST, " IF THEY CUT A HAND OFF THE THIEF, EACH TIME HE IS FOUND GUILTY OF CORRUPTION, YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE TO CUT OFF THE OTHER HAND............HOW TRUE !

...
written by EXISTENTIALIST MAN , April 01, 2010 - 10:49 pm

AWWWW HELL, WHO CARES...........TOO BAD, "ITS NOT ONE ON ONE, HAND TO HAND" !

...
written by EXISTENTIALIST MAN , April 05, 2010 - 09:04 pm

""" HE BELONGS TO A BYGONE LOUISIANA WHEN GRAFT AND CORRUPTION AND MILKING THE PUBLIC TEAT WERE DE RIGUEUR FOR ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS ALIKE ". YES THATS QUITE RIGHT, THAT WAS BEFORE THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES ADMINISTRATORS GOT THEIR FRANCHISEE'S, NOW EVERYONE IS AT THE TROUGH,AND CROWDING THE TEATS. THIS OLE SOW IS DRYING-UP.

You must be logged in to post a comment. Log in using your Facebook account or register if you do not have an account yet.

Read the Flipping Paper!

Click Here for the Entire Print Version of
IND Monthly

Read the Dining Guide

Click Here for the Entire Print Version of
IND Eats Dining Guide

Most Read

Glenn Stewart convicted

In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Dana Baker resigns from Festival International
Frank’s Casing Crew going public

Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
Landry, Pierre playing the blame game

The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
Shelvin loses cool, fails to disclose conflict

City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.

in case you missed it

The One Who Got Away

Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Fore!

Before District Attorney Mike Harson tees off for a fifth term in office, he should seriously consider what might be coming at him.
The Day Primeaux Died

Now we know why the former pedophile priest committed suicide late last year, and the story behind it is more riveting than his death.
Risky Business

Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
Posthaste VS. DAVID EGAN

He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.